Contacted the ALA and told them our story and success with e-cigs. I won't go into the entire email I sent but I will say it was a personal story and very polite. This was their response.

"Thank you for your email to the American Lung Association. Until the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines that e-cigarettes are safe for consumers, the American Lung Association urges consumers not to use these products.
The FDA conducted on limited study in July 2009 and found that the products contained carcinogens and toxic chemicals, including the ingredients found in anti-freeze. A study conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University and published in February 2010 found that e-cigarettes deliver little or no nicotine to users."

It blows my mind that the Virginia Commonwealth University study showed that ecigs deliver little or no nicotine. How is this possible? If it delivered little or none how does it work for so many people? Is the issue with the ecig companies they used for the study? Total BS!

And yeah, I didn't expect much back from them to our replies. Thank you for contacting them Cliff. Don't stop trying though!

Keep contacting them and don't accept the canned response. For example, I sent them the reference and link to the newer article that shows we do get nicotine, published by Bullard et al., in Tobacco Control in response to that part of their canned email. That PVs/e-cigs do deliver nicotine is important because the FDA can say something annoying like the following- they have carcinogens and they don't work- argh.

Anyway, after a few emails back and forth with the ALA, and them saying that it doesn't matter, they're sticking with the FDA's lead, I asked them to forward my request to the Board of directors. I'm planning to print and send a snail mail version addressed to the attention of the board of directors.

It blows my mind that the Virginia Commonwealth University study showed that ecigs deliver little or no nicotine. How is this possible? If it delivered little or none how does it work for so many people? Is the issue with the ecig companies they used for the study? Total BS!

And yeah, I didn't expect much back from them to our replies. Thank you for contacting them Cliff. Don't stop trying though!

Spikey and I met personally with the researcher and discussed a variety of reasons why he got the results he did. For one thing, he was unaware at the time of his study that one puff from a tobacco cigarette requires 10 puffs from an electronic cigarette (on average) to get the same amount of nicotine. He instructed his subjects to take 10 puffs from their assigned product. So this was equivalent to the amount of nicotine you'd get if you only took one puff from your traditional cigarette. Not much.

Also, he has taken a look at other models that may deliver nicotine more effectively than the NJOY and Crown 7 products used in his study.